For the single, they remixed 'In Your Room' to something more of a
rock song than the excellent
album version. Ok, so it's
quite rocky, but if I'd listen to rock, this is what I want it to
sound like. These remixes are very good, even though I bet a lot of DM
fanatics consider them a heresy. The synths are still there, but mostly
in the background.
The live version of 'Never Let Me Down Again' isn't really that
different from that on 101, although it's a bit
shorter and without that 'aggro' part. The drums are supposedly
live, though - I've seen the 'Devotional' live video, and Alan plays live
drums on a lot of tracks. Rumour has it he learned to play drums just for
this album because Dave thought it would sound cool. I don't know if that's
true, but it does sound very good.
Alan also plays the piano on the live version of 'Death's Door', with
Martin singing it with some help of a few background singers (also a new
DM thing that they'd never done before AFAIK). It seems that this track
now has replaced Somebody as the
live track they do with just Martin and a piano.
As for the packaging for this single, they've done one of those neat
cardboard boxes with space left for the
other singles of 'In Your Room' as well.
There were three singles released, just to cash in on stupid die-hard
DM fans (with me being one of them). Some of the remixes are very good, though.
